Getting a blog going with next.js. It's been pretty...

🦅 Simo What are you working on right now?

Matt Palmer Getting a blog going with next.js. It's been pretty enjoyable.

❤️ Jens Backbom Jekyll is great too, try it out!

🍶 Freeman Just want to share my thoughts here. I've worked with react for the last 5 years. However I've started seeing a trend and it's for a good reason that people incl me realise the trade offs of reactivifying everything. Esp for a blog, a non SPA server rendered page works with less moving parts, or a html only SSG (i use zola). You could mount extra reactivity with Web Components (e.g remount). PS i still use next.js, not trying ti dismiss it :)

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🧵 Evan You can React-ify static sites too! I'm pretty sure that's what Gatsby is. @msp it's way cheaper (usually even free) to run a blog using a static site hosted on Netlify. I wish I could find an alternative to Netlify, because I feel like they're getting too big, but that's what seems to work for now.

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Matt Palmer I hear that, though I'm very happy with the particular set of tradeoffs next.js represents. At the end of the day I enjoy writing React too much :) so it's nice to find something that will output something that statically renders what it can, and progresses pretty gracefully from there.

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🤔 David Post a link! Also, I have to agree that it's fun building a blog from scratch. I'm playing with sapper and basically making my own SSG

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